It’s hard to say no to a really good batch of cookies. After butting heads with her new neighbors in the D.C. neighborhood Kalorama, Ivanka Trump reportedly tried to mend fences by going door-to-door with baked goods. The laundry list of complaints Trump was trying to soften included: not abiding by the trash schedule, allowing…
(JTA) — Over a dozen Jewish groups and congregations are participating in the People’s Climate March in Washington, D.C. on Saturday. The People’s Climate Movement, which is organizing the event, advocates for global action against climate change. The march is scheduled to go from the Capitol to the Washington Monument by way of the White…
Forward columnist Bethany Mandel gave birth to her third child on the side of the road in New Jersey on Friday morning. Mandel and her husband Seth were in transit when labor ensued. The child, a boy, was delivered by Seth in a parking lot of an auto body shop in Sand Hills, N.J. Thank…
The number of Jewish descendants of Holocaust survivors who have applied for German citizenship has nearly quadrupled this year in the part of the United States served by Germany’s Boston consulate, radio station WBUR reported Thursday. Consul general Ralf Horlemann told the station that 49 people had received dual citizenship in the first quarter of…
Palestinian-American activist Linda Sarsour should be allowed to speak at an upcoming commencement ceremony for the City University of New York’s School of Public Health, the New York Daily News editorial board argued Thursday. “Purging a speaker based on a narrow ideological test leads down a dangerous road,” the editorial reads. “Free speech, especially at…
Al Franken is known in Washington for his ability to forge friendships with his fellow senators. The Minnesota senator hosts annual Secret Santas and is often seen laughing with other politicians while riding the congressional subway underneath the Capitol. But he outdid himself on Thursday, corralling his Democratic Senate colleagues into holding a surprise birthday…
(JTA) — The leadership of the far-right National Front party in France replaced its pick for interim president following reports he had denied aspects of the Holocaust. Jean-François Jalkh, who temporarily took Marine Le Pen’s place leading the National Front ahead of the May 7 presidential election runoff, was replaced on Friday, two days after…
(JTA) — All 100 members of the U.S. Senate signed a letter to the leader of the United Nations urging a comprehensive effort to remedy the organization’s “anti-Israel agenda.” The letter, sent Thursday to U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres, identified four specific areas where further action could be taken rectify the “unacceptable” treatment of Israel at…
Members of the “alt-right” claim to be forming a fraternal gang in order to better defend their free-speech rights — with violence if necessary — when police fail to do so. “Our emphasis will be on street activism, preparation, defense and confrontation,” Kyle Chapman, a California activist known online as “Based Stickman,” wrote on Facebook…
When the Jewish social service agency FEGS went bankrupt and shut down in 2015, an employee named Alexander expected to get a new job with the organization that was taking on much of FEGS’s programming. Alexander had ten years’ experience. He didn’t even get an interview. “I have been out of work for months,” Alexander…
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